John Dos Passos Quotes
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
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I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
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Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.
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Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
